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Roger Clemens Was as Great a Pitcher as Walter Johnson

is difficult to compare players from different eras, but it can be done more accurately today thanks to modern statistics.

Walter Johnson was one of the greatest pitchers of all time. He is generally considered the best according to those who saw him pitch, as well as by traditional measurements. Johnson won 417 games from 1907-1927 for a Washington Senators team that finished in the second division 10 times. The Senators won their first pennant in 1924, when Johnson was 36 years old.

Washington beat the New York Giants in the 1924 World Series and repeated as pennant winners in 1925, but they lost the World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Johnson pitched primarily during the dead-ball era with the exception of his last few seasons.

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